Generative Art

For the political poster, I’m going to create a p5 sketch that will generate a unique set of flowers every time it runs, with the text “Give flowers to [underrepresented group].” I’m going to start out with “give flowers to AAPI artists” since that’s the group I feel like I tend to look for the representation the most.

I’m inspired by this plants generator code written by alex baldwin, which was in turn inspired by a plants art piece by Rose Wong.

Extremely rough mock sketch of poster.

Another variation of the poster

Pseudo-code of generative functions I’ll make:

assignColors() {
	// using a given color palette map unique colors to each group of drawn elements
}
drawText() {
	// using given shuffled text, write to canvas
}
drawPot() {
  // draw random pot size
}
drawStem() { // ?
  // draw random stem length and width
}
drawLeaf() {
	// draw leaf varying in width, length, and rotation
  // leaves must follow stems 
}
drawPetal() {
	// draw petal varying in width, length, and rotation
	// draw pattern?
}
drawFlower() {
	// randomize stem, leaves and petals to make a whole flower
}

// bonuses, more variability in leaf patterns
drawFerns() {}
drawLace() {}